Binary Dawn Overhaul

[Buster's Uncle]

Not without Hab Complexes. Tree farms make them too powerful otherwise. Not only can they easily reach 2/2/1 per square, they also receive a 50% economy bonus from the facility while paying no maintenance.

I've passed that along.

What I said the next day was "He hasn't been back by the forum yet, but we'd point out that he said the "Gaians have been altered to represent environmentalists" - and real environmentalists keep their population at sustainable levels, not excell at pop-booming as the Gaians always have."

If you're on Facebook, our page is here: https://www.facebook.com/AlphaCentauri2Forum/  Feel free to go right to the source.  I've also asked for feedback in the promoting post in this SMACX group https://www.facebook.com/groups/131175990236847/  and help keeping the post bumped w/o looking like that's what's up would be good...

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh okay, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for response!

[Buster's Uncle]

The link on the AC2 Facebook page, BTW, pulled 150 views last week, which is unprecedented.  So  for that, MI.

Would you like the tread title changed to reflect the Binary name change?  You can actually do that yourself, by editing the OP...

[MercantileInterest]

Oh? Very flattering. Will keep an eye on the facebook page.

[Nexii]

Not without Hab Complexes. Tree farms make them too powerful otherwise. Not only can they easily reach 2/2/1 per square, they also receive a 50% economy bonus from the facility while paying no maintenance.

I thought maintenance had to be paid on free facilities from faction?  Such as University's free Network Nodes

[MercantileInterest]

Don't know. Suppose that was just an assumption.

[Buster's Uncle]

No early mindworms? Kind of makes Gaians suck, doesn't it? Their big strength was much better exploration and a really good very early game rush.

Also size 3 bases are absolutely terrible. If they made Zak better there's really no reason to ever play Gaian on this.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=14193315&postcount=2

[Nexii]

Early tree farms is really strong though.  I'd say that would balance size 3 cap.  Gaian would still expand fast, early game your bases tend to stay small anyways.

[MercantileInterest]

Can't say it better than Nexii. The Planet Cult still allows the early mindworm rush, so the strategy isn't gone.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've passed both along.

[Buster's Uncle]

v. 1.1 posted: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=17641.msg89406#new

[Buster's Uncle]

Planet Cult in the base game is garbage. It looks like it was renamed in the update, so maybe they are good now. But in the base game Cult is something like the worst race in the game.

I don't really agree about the basis for pop 3 bases but then again it's not my place to tell people what to do.

I've also posted about v. 1.1

[Buster's Uncle]

Love those changes to Gaians. That seems so much more thematically consistent with the techquotes/novels. Also the changes to Morganites make complete sense.

Looking forward to giving this a go!

[Buster's Uncle]

I wanted to try this mod however I am receiving this error:

By the way I downloaded the file and copied and replaced the files directly to my Alien Cross Fire Folder. I hope that was correct.

A bad technology was found in the following file:

ALPHAX.txt

The key that could not be deciphered was

1

It occurred in the following line

1,     ;if non-zero, probe teams can steal technology

This is probably an attempt to modify the file

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=14216574&postcount=9

[Buster's Uncle]

...I told him to try v1.2, and got this...

Ah, thanks! It's working now. Lots of new interesting stuff. I'll let you know how it goes!

Edit:

>.< And crash right after building a former and trying to move it out of University Base.